Yeah, it’ll be a busy day. A supercoolawesome day, because, dude, I am Toastmaster of a friggin’ Worldcon. And that’s just about as awesome as it gets. But I won’t be about here, all day long. Sorry. Real live world takes precedence for once.

If you’re at Chicon 7, come to the opening ceremonies. We’ll have tons of fun. If you’re not here at Chicon 7, I hope you have a fun day anyway.

I have every confidence that your toasting skills are equal to the task, and I’m watching the Paralympics here in London which is pretty awesome as well. I recommend it to anyone who wants to see people pushing the limits…

That is one packed schedule. Best of luck. Hopefully there’s enough Coke Zero in Chicago to help you power through.

On a slight aside, I am very much looking forward to the live stream of the Hugo ceremony this weekend. I’ll be making homemade popcorn and being slightly jealous that I couldn’t be there in person, but also being very happy I can see it at all.

So I sat in the front row for the opening ceremonies. (Trying not to squeee)
My father was amazed. He had no idea that the opening ceremony would be half that interesting. (He has been going to world con for years, but never hit the opening.)
I had to keep explaining who this new young author was.

Words cannot express what a great Toastmaster John was. Pictures are not much better. I was there. My wife watched from the Chicon web page. There was some glitches between the Hugo Award Ceremony and Chicon’s webmaster (or someone), so my wife had zero audio, and the show cut off before the ending.